garbled

gar·ble

G0040400 (gär′bəl)tr.v. gar·bled, gar·bling, gar·bles 1. To mix up or distort to such an extent as to make misleading or incomprehensible: The report garbled all the historical facts.2. To scramble (a signal or message), as by erroneous encoding or faulty transmission.3. Archaic To sort out; cull.n. The act or an instance of garbling: a garble of nonsense syllables.

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[Middle English garbelen, to inspect and remove refuse from spices, from Anglo-Norman garbeler, to sift, and from Medieval Latin garbellāre, both from Arabic ġarbala, to select, from ġirbāl, sieve, from Late Latin crībellum, diminutive of Latin crībrum; see krei- in Indo-European roots.]

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gar′bler (-blər) n.

garbled

(ˈɡɑːbəld) adjjumbled or unclear because of distortion or omissions

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

garbled - lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"disjointed, disordered, illogical, scattered, confused, unconnected, disconnectedincoherent - without logical or meaningful connection; "a turgid incoherent presentation"

garbled

adjective jumbled, confused, distorted, mixed up, muddled, incomprehensible, unintelligible He gave a garbled version of the story.

Translations

混淆的

garbled

(ˈgaːbld) adjective (of a story etc) mixed up. The child gave a garbled account of the accident. 混淆的 混淆的